smart upgrade - worked, but paused and started thrashing my hdd in the 'preparing' stage, on libdrm2. This took _minutes_ and then continued as usual and at a normal speed.

Near the end of that smart upgrade, my screen flickered, the upgrade continued for a few packages and then my screen went blank with a cursor at the top-left. There was lots of hdd activity and I just waited for it to stop.

My keyboard was locked (no numlock use), but I did a SysRq-r and could use it again.

Did a SysRq-s to sync, it just flashed my HDD once, so everything was already written to disk.

Has an ugly cursor issue. setting 'hardware cursor' makes it look good, but it's slow and also has the linux mouse pointer overtop [edit: this issue is described in greater detail in Improving World of Warcraft performance on Linux.

Needs nano syntax highlighting

Disable pc speaker [done]

Root zsh stuff / other root stuff -- can use gksu

Check other ~ stuff which should also be moved.

[I have no clue what this means]

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Smart was fucked, so reinstalled

1600x1200x8still not right.. it must be this video card

shift-numlock does mousekeys. I wish I knew that.. who in the hell put that in, with no message saying when it's turned on and how to turn it off?

On bootup: "The greeter application appears to be crashing. Attempting to use a different one."

.. reinstalled

1280x1024x8 -> better, but not perfect

Update, upgrade -> eventually died during the install

Attempted an upgrade from the cli. also confirmed that the list of desired upgrades was included

And you're right, I just found out that "WordPress" isn't a valid word in the spell checker. I guess the whole spell checker component is a third-party work, and they can't or won't update it for whatever reason. There's no custom dictionary either. Bah.